She only came back when she felt like it, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja vu.

Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park

A test I didn’t know I was taking, he thought with a curious sense of déjà vu.

Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society

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There’s an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, that you’ve somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.

Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book

He spoke in English, and I felt a sudden sense of deja vu.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

She had a very powerful sense of déjà vu.

Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

I’d call it déjà vu or whatever, but that’s sort of what my whole life was right after I came back.

John Corey Whaley -- Nogin

Would it be deja vu if I asked you what you were doing in my room, little sister?

Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls

It was not deja vu, for at the time he had experienced no sensation of ever having seen a naked man in a tree at Snowden’s funeral before.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

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Every now and again, Mom or Dad will be telling a story about something, about Dad catching his first salmon with Gramps, or Mom remembering the amazing Dead Moon concert she saw with Dad on their first date, and I’ll have an overpowering deja vu.

Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

It took me a moment of thought to pinpoint the source of the deja vu.

Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

To see the prison and hear the resonant shouts of the mob outside echoing the broadcast on my television-well, it was like deja vu, except it was happening now.

Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart

The image was gruesome and profoundly strange, bringing with it an unsettling sense of déjà vu.

Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

Like déjà vu.

Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

I traded her the chalk for my staff, then had a horrible flash of déjà vu.

Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire

I wondered if it felt repetitive to Carlisle, like déjà vu.

Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

In the silence, she noticed Logan was looking at her with that peculiar déjà vu expression again.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One

Blomkvist had a strange feeling of déjà vu.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Intergenerational déjà vu?

Ellen Hopkins -- Burned

Though she told herself it probably meant nothing, she couldn’t shake the sense of déjà vu that suddenly washed over her, the same feeling she’d had when she’d visited Jim’s grave.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

"Thank you," she said, and with her hand clutching mine, I felt a strange sensation of déjà vu, as if our years together had suddenly been reversed.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding

Blomkvist had a feeling of déjà vu when he studied the list of suspects that he and Eriksson had put together over the weekend.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire

In the fifteen years since it happened, I’ve felt a sense of déjà vu at odd times—when carrying boxes to a moving van a couple of years ago, for instance—and the feeling still makes me stop whatever it is I’m doing, if only for a moment, and I find myself drawn back in time, to the day that Missy Ryan died.

Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road

THERE WAS a sense of deja vu to the meeting.

Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue

They were attractive and happy, and she felt a sense of deja vu.

Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven

Triggered, no doubt, by the memory—the deja vu, the strange familiarity of the situation.

Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

CARLOS HAD a sense of deja vu.

Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit

This is some serious deja vu.

Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach

Okay, this is deja vu-ish.

Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

For a moment the gunslinger felt mixed feelings of nostalgia and fear, stitched in with an eerie feeling of deja vu-he thought: I dreamed this.

Stephen King -- The Gunslinger

She had a sudden moment of déjà vu and paused.

John Ringo -- Live Free or Die

By the time that he reached the hallway to the kitchen, he was puzzled by a full-blown case of déjà vu.

Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor

She had a feeling of déjà vu.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

She was struck by a sense of déjà vu as she listened to the familiar clicks of the socket wrench when he adjusted it into place.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me

It was Heinrich who’d told me that exposure to the chemical waste could cause a person to experience a sense of deja vu.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

Déjà vu of the most unpleasant kind and he doesn’t seem to get it at all.

Ellen Hopkins -- Identical

Deja vu.

Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil

The sense of déjà vu was vivid, almost dizzying.

Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers

There was no familiarity here—on a road I’d never seen, doing something I’d never done before—no deja vu So the hallucinations must be triggered by something else… I felt the adrenaline coursing through my veins again, and I thought I had the answer.

Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

I didn’t think Steffie knew what deja vu meant, but it was possible Babette had told her.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

The abrupt wave of deja vu was so strong it nearly woke me up.

Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

Deja vu, however , was no longer a working symptom of Nyodene contamination.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

It was neither deja vu, presque vu nor jamais vu.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

They were late with sweaty palms, late with nausea, late again with deja vu.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

Is there a true deja vu and a false deja vu? I wondered whether her palms had been truly sweaty or whether she’d simply imagined a sense of wetness.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

Is there a true deja vu and a false deja vu? I wondered whether her palms had been truly sweaty or whether she’d simply imagined a sense of wetness.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

But what if she hadn’t heard the radio, didn’t know what deja vu was ?